apps/v4/content/docs/rtl/index.mdx
shadcn/ui components have first-class support for right-to-left (RTL) layouts. Text alignment, positioning, and directional styles automatically adapt for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian.
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When you install components, the CLI automatically transforms physical positioning classes to logical equivalents, so your components work seamlessly in both LTR and RTL contexts.
Select your framework to get started with RTL support.
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left-* and right-* are converted to logical equivalents like start-* and end-*.rtl:rotate-180.Click the link below to open a Next.js project with RTL support in v0.
Automatic RTL transformation via the CLI is only available for projects created using shadcn create with the new styles (base-nova, radix-nova, etc.).
For other styles, see the Migration Guide.
For the best RTL experience, we recommend using fonts that have proper support for your target language. Noto is a great font family for this and it pairs well with Inter and Geist.
See your framework's RTL guide under Get Started for details on installing and configuring RTL fonts.
The CLI also handles animation classes, automatically transforming physical directional animations to their logical equivalents. For example, slide-in-from-right becomes slide-in-from-end.
This ensures animations like dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips animate in the correct direction based on the document's text direction.
A note on tw-animate-css:
There is a known issue with the tw-animate-css library where the logical slide utilities are not working as expected. For now, make sure you pass in the dir prop to portal elements.
<Popover>
<PopoverTrigger>Open</PopoverTrigger>
<PopoverContent dir="rtl">
<div>Content</div>
</PopoverContent>
</Popover>
<Tooltip>
<TooltipTrigger>Open</TooltipTrigger>
<TooltipContent dir="rtl">
<div>Content</div>
</TooltipContent>
</Tooltip>
If you have existing components installed before enabling RTL, you can migrate them using the CLI as follows:
<Steps><Step>Run the migrate command</Step>
npx shadcn@latest migrate rtl [path]
[path] accepts a path or glob pattern to migrate. If you don't provide a path, it will migrate all the files in the ui directory.
The following components are not automatically migrated by the CLI. Follow the RTL support section for each component to manually migrate them.
Some icons like ArrowRightIcon or ChevronLeftIcon might need the rtl:rotate-180 class to be flipped correctly. Add the rtl:rotate-180 class to the icon component to flip it correctly.
<ArrowRightIcon className="rtl:rotate-180" />
Add the direction component to your project.
npx shadcn@latest add direction
Follow your framework's documentation for details on how to add the DirectionProvider component to your project.
See the Get Started section for details on how to add the DirectionProvider component to your project.